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URL encoding?

I'm not sure if "encoding" is the right word for what I'm looking for:

I want to display the URL as numbers or code, but not readable like "www.domain.com"
And before anybody starts in with the "why unless its illegal"- I have a personal website and am offering some of the space for a friends school club, but it has a minor drug reference in the URL and the school will have a fit about the club site being hosted there.

Every server is usually accessible through its IP address. So you just have to find out the IP of the server where you have the webspace. Alternatively, most hosting companies I know that are providing shared hosting have a certain sub domain for each customer, e. g. something like “k39762.clients.hostingcompany.com” where you can also acces your website and a regular domain like “example.com” is just an alias, a(nother) link to that server space. So you need to find out either this or the IP address.

Users who have thanked VIPStephan for this post:

Every server is usually accessible through its IP address. So you just have to find out the IP of the server where you have the webspace. Alternatively, most hosting companies I know that are providing shared hosting have a certain sub domain for each customer, e. g. something like “k39762.clients.hostingcompany.com” where you can also acces your website and a regular domain like “example.com” is just an alias, a(nother) link to that server space. So you need to find out either this or the IP address.

Okay, I can find that out- but how would I cause the browser to default display that rather than the "example.com" in the address bar?

Users who have thanked Beagle for this post:

Ahhh, okay. So then my question become- what about if i use a redirect code? I was planning on using a free single-page host as the address for her to pass out to the club people (something more acceptable by a school) then have it re-direct to the main content on my domain- my concern being they see where it redirect to etc. So If i use a re-direct code, and put the "customer.subdomain.com" in the code instead of the "example.com" that will be what shows up in the URL?

If your webspace is accessible through example.com and customer.subdomain.com, and you register “moreacceptableaddress.com” for your client or whoever, and redirect it to your server using “customer.subdomain.com” then it will show up as that. Only if you have another redirect on your server to change all requests for “customer.subdomain.com” to “example.com” then they will see the latter one.

So, basically, if you enter “customer.subdomain.com” in your address bar and you can access your site and the domain stays the same then you’re safe to redirect from anywhere to this domain.

One thing to keep in mind is that web filters don't work based off what you enter in the URL, it works off of the URLs being requested at the computer level. So if you have a redirect using frames for example to the blocked URL, even though the address bar says one address, the web filter will still block the page.

So if you use a different domain you need to add it onto your hosting account as a add-on/parked domain so it works just like the primary.